A question on apt-get relative to kernel versions

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Jun 15 02:00:34 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:40:04PM -0700, Joe Pruett wrote:
> yep, apt-get from fedora.us won't upgrade the kernel.  you should do:
> apt-get install kernel#2.4.20-31.9
> or kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, etc.  it won't make the new kernel the 
> default either.  edit your boot loader config files to make that happen.

And if you're brave, hook in the "upgradevirt.lua" script -- I've been doing
it for a while, with no ill effects.

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